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    1 year ago

    Yeah if you want I can also post some general guides, though I think that a community like that will never be as big and active as it was in the old days. At least it won’t require much moderation.

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      Yeah I was thinking that. That’s why I decided to not make it like r/MartialMemes or r/Xianxia. Too overly specific and we’ll get like one post every 2 months and that’s gonna be me any time I open a new book. But at least there were like 5 people in this thread interested in Chinese literature so I was like, that’s cool, time for the community I’d been yearning since I joined (first thing in my bio lol).

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        Yeah I think I read (mostly halfway to quarter way through) all the xianxia novels that I found interesting and wouldn’t mind finding something new. Going to read the 3 body problem soon before it gets made into the netflix series.

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          My dad was reading that and I started seeing it everywhere. I’ll download it then and see if it’s interesting when I have free time.

          Currently also rereading your much hated Cradle

          💥😎👈

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            1 year ago

            Lol I don’t hate it well maybe that mod made me hate it but I did read the first book. Can’t say I didn’t try.

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              1 year ago

              x) jk

              And yeah. You did more than I would. I think I don’t finish 9out of 10 shows I start. Triple that for books. Not sure I’ve finished a book I didn’t like yet.

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                1 year ago

                Think I finished 6 translated Chinese novels, 2 of those were under 1k chapters. Just took me a decade :). I think it’s impossible to finish one of these novels without liking it, 2k chapters is a grind that’s like 200+ hours per novel.

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                  Super true. I was reading a novel when I lived in Venezuela, and I was astounded that months into my life in Spain, I was still reading it, and I’d get this feeling that it had been such a big part of my life at that point. Ironically I can’t remember which novel that was. But yeah I usually spend weeks if not months to finish a normal one of these, sometimes even reading all day.

                  In contrast, a normal novel can be read in like 8 hours. Makes me think I’ve read the Xianxia equivalent of hundreds of normal novels. And it certainly has taken its toll in my fiction mind. I’ve been writing stories since I was a kid and my stories now tend to have these vast worlds filled with amoral god-like beings that tend to have a bit of a tendency to kill people like ants, and characters that just go around in some kind of cross-world chase for something infinitely far away. I should really learn to balance that a bit cuz it has stifled my will to write a bit.

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                    Yeah something like foundation is 6+ hours to read, you kinda forget the people and details but with these long novels you can’t help but basically memorize the characters and their motivations since you’ve read it so much. Doesn’t help some novels like Martial God Asura with it’s 5k chapters just repeat arc after arc. These novels are best when shorter the vast majority of the time, most of these authors just can’t write an engaging story that isn’t just on the fly asspulls and repeating sequences of events.

                    Hah I’m the opposite I just think of stuff as huge systems, you define the world and characters and run the simulation with some creativity. Thing is most of these novels are very easy to read and not that cerebral taxing it would be much much harder to read the equivalent in good literature.